The World: Latest Stories

The world’s enduring image of Marilyn Monroe — standing over a subway grate in a blowing white dress — comes from the film “The Seven Year Itch.” Now, another look at that scene has come to light.

Iran at first banned US wrestlers from this year's Freestyle World Cup, in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order forbidding visas for Iranians.

One tech CEO is making a statement against the travel ban with a billboard in Times Square.

White evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics voted for Trump in big numbers. But more of them are speaking out against the administration’s move to block many Muslims from entering the US.

There's a Facebook page for Donald Trump fans in Lebanon and it's getting thousands of likes.

Federal authorities had previously granted Guadalupe Garcia permission to stay in the US. There is a federal civil rights case against Phoenix’s former sheriff and the types of raids that she was swept up in.

Dr. Chalak Berzingi is a refugee from Erbil, Iraq. He works in a deeply conservative Appalachian town where he has found nothing but acceptance.

Donald Trump vowed to press his fight for his executive order banning immigration and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, while also looking at new avenues to impose his ban.

What would the internet look like if you owned a piece of it? Nathan Schneider thinks it's time for some of the biggest internet players to get cut down to size.

US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn discussed the issue of US sanctions with Russia's ambassador weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president. The talks took place just as then-President Barack Obama was ordering new actions against Russia over its alleged interference in the US election.

Drones and robotics, and their potential uses, are advancing faster than policy and the human moral compass can easily keep up. How and when best to use these technologies in conflict and law enforcement, for strategic gain and to minimize loss of life? What crosses the line? Peter Singer, New America Foundation strategist and author of "Wired for War," weighs in.

A three-judge panel heard arguments on Tuesday about the halt to President Donald Trump's executive order banning all refugees and immigrants from seven countries. On Thursday evening, the panel ruled unanimously to continue suspension of the order.

Asian Americans are screened for Type 2 diabetes at lower rates than other groups. Researchers want to know why.

The US has always played a major role in women's rights worldwide. What will the US position be under the Donald Trump administration?

An Iranian cartoonist in a remote South Pacific detention camp messages his thoughts and feelings about being in limbo for nearly four years.

It seems timely to examine the many accomplishments of women throughout New York history.

In the run-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio’s state government came under fire for the disgusting state of the bay on which Olympic sailors would compete.

The safety and security of Americans is first and foremost, says Hossein Khorram, who supported Trump as a Republican delegate from Washington.

The Trump administration claimed success following a raid on an al-Qaeda camp in Yemen. Yemenis see it as a failure because of civilian deaths, especially the killing of an 8-year-old girl who was an American citizen.

The Swedish scientist Hans Rosling has been called everything from "data guru" to "Jedi master" of statistics. He died on Tuesday at age 68 from pancreatic cancer.

Catherine Asaro and David Brin discuss how technology shapes sci-fi — and how sci-fi shapes technology.

President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigrants and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries has put many documented immigrants in a legal limbo — but what about those people who were still in the process of getting their US visas when the ban went into effect?

In Britain, a planned visit from President Donald Trump has been overshadowed by a political fight over whether he should be denied symbolic honors.

In the midst of arguments over Trump's suspension of refugee resettlement, some needy people are still getting in.

Rais Bhuiyan, from Bangladesh, survived a killing spree targeting Muslims in the US days after Sept. 11, 2001. He then tried to save his would-be killer from execution.

Top Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty on Wednesday of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence that threatens to end his bid to challenge President Vladimir Putin in a presidential poll next year.

François Fillon boasted a healthy lead in this year’s French presidential elections but then an article published in late January revealed that his wife had earned more than €900,000 ($963,225) over the course of 12 years — while Fillon was a senator and prime minister — for an assistant job that she appeared never to have actually done.

What could funding cuts mean for the US at the United Nations? A former ambassador explains.

After Eric Trump reportedly ran up the taxpayer bill on a trip to Uruguay, we look at a few properties in South America that were supposed to carry the Trump name. Some still haven't gotten off the grand, and at least one was ditched by the president's company.

Sebastian Gorka's refugee parents escaped from Communist Hungary. Now he's a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, making the case for the immigrant and refugee ban.

Foreign Policy magazine writer and former Pentagon official Rosa Brooks says "alt-right" internet trolls attacked her after she published a column criticizing Donald Trump.

Jörg Möller, a German engineer, is dismantling a plant that his father helped build.

During World War II, an Indian princess and Muslim refugee, Noor Inayat Khan, became an agent for British special operations. She parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to help the resistance. In the end, she made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Israeli press was raising questions about Ivanka Trump's conversion to Judaism. Then, after the US election, Israel's rabbinical authorities changed the rules.

Amnesty International’s new report “Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya prison, Syria” alleges that Syrian authorities systematically executed as many as 13,500 detainees at one jail outside Damascus from 2011 to 2015, and that the killings are probably still happening.

The executive order signed by the president called for a review of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which was designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis and was a major target of Trump’s presidential campaign.

It takes a lot of confidence to write a cookbook covering all aspects of Chinese cuisine. But that's exactly what Kei Lum Chan and his wife have done.

Some of America’s best scientists (think Einstein and Tesla) immigrated here from other countries. We talk with two economists who’ve calculated their impact on American innovation.

Romanians took to the streets for a sixth day of protests even though the government scrapped its controversial decree to shield many politicians from prosecution for corruption.

The Kremlin has asked for an apology from Fox News after host Bill O'Reilly, speaking in a weekend interview with President Donald Trump, stated baldly that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a killer. Trump responded the US has a lot of killers too.

Memories of their country are sometimes triggered by songs. And the memories they bring up can be bittersweet, or sometimes just bitter.

A Boston court was one of the first to restrict the ability of DHS to implement Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees. On Friday, the order lapsed — but soon after another, more far-reaching order was put in place.

Qian Xuesen studied at MIT and then joined the Manhattan Project, the top secret US atomic bomb program. Later, during the McCarthy era, Qian was kicked out of the country after being implicated as a communist sympathizer. Back in China, he went on to become the “father of Chinese rocketry.”

How vulnerable is American infrastructure to the threat of a cyber attack? And what sort of response is proportional?

Vaquitas are found in only one place on Earth: Mexico's Gulf of California. Mexico has been unable, or unwilling, to stop their decline toward extinction. A new legal action is trying to force the US government to step in to save them.

Why is it so hard to figure out how the universe is put together?

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences updates an important policy tool authorities rely on to craft federal rules and regulations aimed at reducing the carbon emissions that 95 percent of scientists blame for the warming planet.

Surviving is not a crime. That's the slogan used by hundreds of undocumented migrants who eke out a living selling trinkets and handbags to tourists on the streets of Barcelona, Spain. Amanda Kersey reports on their burgeoning movement to organize for more rights.